MoRTH to start construction of ₹35,000-cr Delhi-Katra expressway
The Ministry of Road Transport & Highway (MoRTH) is all set to start the construction work on the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway involving an investment of ₹35,000 crore. Union transport minister, Nitin Gadkari, informed that by October 2023, people can travel by road from Delhi to Katra (Maa Vaishno Devi) via Amritsar in less than seven hours. The ministry has floated bids for 160-km of the 634-km greenfield expressway which will take off from Kundli-Maneswar-Pulwal expressway near Bahadurgarh in Haryana. The expressway can be expanded from four to six lanes in future. It will tentatively be about a four-hour drive from Delhi to Amritsar and a three-hour drive from there to Katra. The e-way project aims to promote religious tourism by connecting Sikh Shrines at Goindwal Sahib, Khadoor Sahib, Taran and Dera Baba Nanak/Kartarpur Sahib international corridor in Punjab.
